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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Music: Classical: Experimental & New

Elizabeth Alker with music by a new generation of composers who defy classification.

Elizabeth Alker with music by an exciting new generation of unclassified composers and performers, breaking free of the constraints of practice rooms and concert halls.

Unclassified: Animal Collective in the Listening Chair

Animal Collective in the Listening Chair

BBC Radio 3 - Unclassified, Animal Collective in the Listening Chair

Animal Collective’s Geologist picks a song that transports him to another place.

Elizabeth Alker invites Animal Collective’s resident sound collagist, Geologist, into the Listening Chair to pick a song that transports him to another place.

Elizabeth Alker surveys the landscape of contemporary ambient recordings, with songs that soothe, spiral, and soar.

In a programme first broadcast in January, she invites Geologist from the long-running psychedelic group Animal Collective into the Listening Chair, where he selects a piece of music that transports him to another realm. We also hear a piece from Animal Collective’s new album, Time Skiffs, with which the group once again smudge the lines between ambience and all-out bombast.

Produced by Frank Palmer
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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